LSenati^  Bill,   No.   .38.1      ^ 


Q17VATR  Mav2!  I.S64— Ilft;t^l  ti'-^t  aa.i  >«uoiai  nifies  andre- 
femd  to  he'Commit^^^^  the  Judiciary.  May  28  i864.-lleported 
'^hh  amendments,  and  bill  and  amendments  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Sparrow,  from  the  Comti^ittee  on  Military  Affairs.  | 


A    BILL 

For  the  payment  of  Commissioner,  appointed  under  the  act  entitled 
-An  Act  to  suspend  the  privilege  of  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  in 
certain  cases,"  and  to    cot^fer   certain    powers    upon  said  Commis- 


sioners. 


1  Section  1.    The  Cwigress   of  the  Confeikraic    States  of  Amrlca 

2  do  enact,  That  the  Commissioners  appointed    under  the    said  act 
5     shall  be  entitled  to  receive    the  compensation    of  the  judges    of 

I     tive  military  courts  while   engaged  in   the  performance  of  their 
#  :,  Jluties,  and   that   their  assistants    shall   be   allowed    the  pay    of 
udge' advocate   of  the    said   courts:     Provided,  That   not  more 
^Mhan  one  Commissioner  shall  be  appointed  in  any  one  State,  and 
7  that  not  more  than  one  assistant  shaU  be  employed  for  that  pur- 

9  pose. 

I  Sec.  2.  That  the  said    Commissioners   shall   have  the  povrera 

£  conferred  upon  Commissioners  appointed  by   the  district  courts 

3  by  the  act  of  the  Provisional  Congress.  aj)proved  30th  of  August, 


a%[   nun 

th^naid 


4      IStil,    a%[   numbered  two  hundred    aud    scveuty-three    iu    the 
acts    of  th^fcaid  Congress. 


AMENDMENTS 
Proposed  by  the  Committee  on   the   Judiciary  to   bill  (S.  38)  for  the 
payment    of    Commissioners    appointed   under   the   act    entitled 
'*An  Act  to    suspend  the  privilege  of.  the  writ  of  habeas   corpus   in 
certain  cases." 

1  1.  In  section  one,  strike  out  the  words  "the  judges  of  the  mili- 

2  tary  courts  while  engaged  in   the   performance  of  their  duties," 

3  and  insert  *'two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  each  per  month,  from 

4  the  date  of  their  respective   appointments  until  the  expiration 

5  of  their  service."        •  • 

1  2.  In  section  one,  strike  out   the    words  ''pay  of  judge  advo- 

2  cates  of  the  said  courts,"  and  insert  ''sum  of  one  hundred  and 
S     fifty   dollars   per  month   from    the   date  of    their  appointments 

i    respectively  until  the  expiration  of  their  service."  |       i^ 


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